Alan Brown Email & Phone Number

Fairfax, Va

Responsibilities> Direct 2 remote SCRUM teams (12+ direct reports) responsible for the MKS Integrity (MIIP) product.> SCRUM Master serving as subject matter expert in the process & ensuring teams comply with the process.> Perform all aspects of personnel management including recruiting, hiring, firing, and training as well as providing technology leadership, alignment with corporate goals and objective, and quality delivery.> Serve as the Release manager for MIIP product directing content, priorities, and quality.> Manage MKS Toolkit software development working closely with product managers, support, and customers to identify new functionality, prioritize issues, and coordinate releases.Achievements> Used SCRUM practices to deliver an Enterprise MKS Integrity Integration Platform (an ALM solution using standards based SOA technologies such as web services and BPEL and components written in Java) on-time, on budget, delivering customer value from day one, including full product code and all product artifacts.> Selected to participate on the ESB selection committee based on my technical thought leadership and software development experience designing, building, and using similar products.> Led initiative establishing a team focused on a testing framework, automated testing and test coverage.

Fairfax, Va

Responsibilities > Supervised all aspects of the MKS Toolkit (C/C++/Windows) software product development and delivery lifecycle. > Contributed to and managed the process driving the product roadmap, release content and priorities, software design / development / testing, documentation, CD contents, evaluation guides, web content, license management, project management, release Management, examples, and user and technical training. > Delivery channels included delivery through a web store, reseller channel, and direct sales.> Performed all aspects of personnel management for cross-functional software product development teams of 8-30 people; expert in remote management as team was not co-located.> Collaborated with Marketing, Sales, and Application Support executive teams to ensure product development, delivery, and sales strategies were aligned, new deals were successfully sold, and significant support contracts were renewed. > Worked closely with user-base and potential customer accounts to gather and prioritize requirements for the product roadmap and interim technical releases.> Ensured compatibility and release schedule alignment with Microsoft Compilers and Operating systems.> Developed and delivered formal product user training programs. > Guided product maturation and growth: - Rebranded XServer from Sun and put it into the Toolkit product line. - Ensured that product grew with Windows’ capabilities by adding x64 and IA64 support. - Ensured that there was a Toolkit release within 30 days of each Microsoft Windows’ release. Achievements> Key contributor in the conversion of the R&D team’s use of the Waterfall methodology to a SCRUM process combining Agile development with Automotive Spice (similar to CMMI) methodologies in several teams, not all co-located, and the resulting Automotive SPICE level 1 certification. > Led effort to integrate MKS X/Server into the MKS Toolkit resulting in $1M incremental revenues.

Fairfax, Va

> Directed the design and development of a new product activation system, built in-house, and including - the client installation, - web service for online activation, - offline activation, - interface with sales system and license generator components. Resulted in significant incremental revenues through the identification of discrepancies between number of paid licenses customers were using and the number they had purchased.

Fairfax, Va

Architect / Firefighter: 1995 - 1999> Worked on-site with customers troubleshooting and resolving software issues.> As technical and subject matter expert, contributed to product design decisions including designing solutions to UNIX and Windows functional alignment problems. Senior Software Engineer: 1993 - 1995> Key Architect in the design and development of a software product UNIX API on Windows NT using C/C++/Windows, Win32 APIs, and Visual Studio.

Herndon, Va

Responsibilities> PC expert in a cross platform, object oriented, C++ database application.> Built development team, prepared presentations, prototyped, selected tools, wrote white papers, performed analysis, purchased PC hardware, designed and implemented initial NT server set-up (hardware specification, software RAID 5, MS network set-up).> Created the NT half of an NT/Unix cross platform development environment.Achievements> Recruiting and team building.> Wrote foundation classes for logging, exception handling: UI Independent Model-View-Controller architecture, and translatable string loadin; all of these had UNIX and Win32 solutions.> STL, MFC 3.1, and socket++. The resulting environment allowed UNIX developers to produce code that would compile and link with the Win32 libraries and so allowed them to be productive in their native environment.

Reston, Va

Responsibilities> Designed development for a Windows 3.0 application - a multi-windowed display server for a UNIX-based office automation system. > Project included significant Windows/C development with a small UNIX component and STREAMS and user-level device driver/multiplexer.> Maintained DOS network TSRs (which supplied a network API to the Windows), and the Windows program.Achievements> Globalised the product for translation into ten foreign languages. The strings were derived from UNIX catalogues and stored in resource only dynamic link libraries.> Enhanced the product from a Windows 2.0 only application to work with Windows 3.x by adding a DPMI Interface. Received a local quality award for this work, since it was done on my own time as a debugging tool. > Upgraded from Windows 2.0 look and feel to 3.0 by adding floating popup menus, 3D buttons and a button bar. Received an “above and beyond the call of duty” award for this work. > Designed and led the addition of a graphical installation and configuration utility for the product.

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Responsibilities> Designed and wrote the software for an indoor golf game involving a player swinging a real Golf Club; the computer modelled the club head to produce the real-time simulation on a TV.Achievements> Wrote start-up code for the custom hardware, as well as drivers to control a large number of sensors which were required to capture the golf swing at speeds of up to 150 miles per hour. > Designed and wroter extremely tight assembler code - polling 48 sensors in a 150 microseconds, - interrupt handlers to capture timers to 0.5 micro-second accuracy, with minimum interruption to the polling taking place. > Wrote software to build a three-dimensional model of the club head at ball contact. - Data were used as a basis for ball launch parameters, and subsequent ball trajectory and roll simulation. - Simulations displayed in approximately real-time without the aid of an arithmetic co-processor.